Caen (France) (AFP) – French officials are fighting for possession of 1793 manifesto by a woman justifying her decision to stab a revolutionary ... years but that the government missed its ...

The French grappled with this issue in the wake of revolution in 1789 as they worked ... of the Rights of Man and Citizen, touted a government whose sovereignty resided in the nation and whose ...

The conflict reshaped the French government and led to the end of ... In order to prevent inflation, revolutionary officials promised to retire the assignat from circulation and burn the notes ...

One Vatican official ... coming out of the French Revolution. They had given up their convent and moved into separate houses. In their obedience to the new Revolutionary government, they had ...